On Wed, 7 February, 2007 11:01 am, Hans Schwaebli wrote: > What do you think about the XML format used for writing Ant scripts? I > don't like it.
Tastes vary. :-) > What about writing Ant scripts in a script language like Python or > Jython instead of writing them in XML? I think it would be much more > productive. > > There seems to be a private project for this, but it is not official, > not from Apache. I don't know about Python, but there is a very well established build system implementation in Ruby called Rake[1]. I have heard that it there are a number of efforts that allow Java integration[2]. Cheers, Joe [1] http://rake.rubyforge.org/ [2] http://blog.aslakhellesoy.com/articles/2006/12/18/building-java-with-jruby -- Joe Schmetzer .:. Renaissance Developer .:. http://www.exubero.com/ +44-(0)7775-770-422 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
